Motivational Brush

# Motivational Brush A twelve-card motivational film: one full-bleed photograph per scene, and a hand-brushed word or line set enormous across it. Nothing else is on the frame — the type carries every card, and the photograph is the ground it is written on. ## How it reads Each scene opens with the picture already moving — a slow Ken Burns push or pull that alternates direction card to card — and the type wipes up into place from below, slightly rotated, as if it had been painted on. Cards come in five shapes: - **a single brush word** (cover, punch beats, end card) — one or two words, no supporting copy; - **a brush line with a small sans note** under it that finishes the sentence; - **a small sans paragraph with a brush payoff** that lands late in the scene; - **a four-line list** whose lines wipe up one after another; - **a circled word**, with a hand-drawn ink ellipse struck around it. ## Filling it Every card is one thought. The brush slots are deliberately short — a cover word is fourteen characters, a circled word is six — because the type is set to bleed to the frame edges and longer copy collapses it. Put the reasoning in the `body` and `subhead` slots, which are set in Hanken Grotesk at a fraction of the size. Three cards are silent by design (the two-word punch, the circled phrase and the end card): they are hard beats between the narrated ones. The other nine narrate, and three of them — the paragraph cards — cut their photograph as b-roll across the narration rather than holding one still. ## Type and colour Caveat Brush for every brush line, Hanken Grotesk Medium for the small sans notes. Cream type over a near-black halo on a dark photograph; four palettes shift the type and its halo together and keep that contrast pair intact.